More Images of Horsmonden Station

John Freeman from the Horsmonden Nostalgia Group recently contacted me and requested me to ask the author and campaigner Brian Hart if he could spare any images of the station, I'm glad to say that Brian has very kindly provided a whole lot of pictures many of which I am also going to use on here. (It gives me something useful to do during the lockdown).

Courtesy of Brian Hart. This image from the embankment to the south shows a little of the station and the parapets of the road bridge which met the south end of the platform.  A little further south perhaps a small stream ran under the line and fed the River Teise

Courtesy of Brian Hart. Looking north along the long siding with the station on the left and the dock platform for loading fruit from the nearby fruit packing depot, to the right. In the far distance the buffers can just about be discerned.

Courtesy of Brian Hart. Inside a the fruit packing depot in Horsmonden.

Courtesy of Brian Hart. This picture is Taken from the bridge over the Goudhurst Road, the station master's house stands on the extreme left and part of the approach road can also be seen. There appear to be a few wagons parked on the long siding.

Courtesy of Brian Hart. This wonderful picture would have been taken from the top of the embankment at Bassets Farm. Both the goods yard sidings are occupied, the longer one at the back with a number of coal wagons, behind them can be seen the back of the station masters house (curiously there were no windows at the back, perhaps the railway company expected him to forget about work when he went home).

Courtesy of Brian Hart. The station and goods yard from the north. Various sleepers and an oil drum appear to be laid near the end of the platform while a goods train sits in the longer siding of the goods yard.

Images courtesy of Brian Hart. I am unsure what the covered structure is in the bottom picture in front of the washing line?

Courtesy of Brian Hart. Taken from the north end of the platform and looking north into the beginning of the deep cutting, two sets of tracks (one is near the trees) from the goods yard can be seen joining the main line. Old sleepers seem to have been regularly stacked here.

Courtesy of Brian Hart. A nice image of the station from its approach. The goods yard gate stands on the left, while a small letter box stands on the extreme right of the picture.

Courtesy of Brian Hart. Taken 19th May 1961 'C' Class Freight 31592 is attaching wagons from the goods yard while the down home signal towers over one of the trolley huts. A grinding wheel and oil cans are littered around the hut.

Courtesy of Brian Hart. An image of the front of the station from the goods yard.

Courtesy of Brian Hart. Looking south along the 300 foot platform. In this picture only two of the four oast houses appear to have had cowls on top of them. 

Courtesy of Brian Hart. Another view of some of the station out buildings, the points and platform facing.

Courtesy of Brian Hart. Looking towards Horsmonden from the Goudhurst Road, the station would have stood on the right and to the left the line would have run on towards Nevergood Farm and Goudhurst (at this point there were no cowls on the four oast houses). The road looks very narrow in this picture, I imagine it must have been taken in 1940 or prior to that, before a bus route was established or there were many cars on the road.

                                            Courtesy of Brian Hart. The End!